Project Doctor
Project Doctor provides a crucial and cost-effective defense against failed technology implementations. Everyone has heard the stories of massive failures that cost hundreds of millions, which represent the worst case scenario. Even if your implementation is successful, competitors may steal market share while you focus internally, or opportunities may be missed while your company concentrates on itself, rather than the larger market.
Many in project management routinely tout the “Three Levers:” scope, cost and timeline. They claim that any two of the levers can be controlled, leaving the third to move in concert with the other two, when in practice the only thing executive management can truly control is the scope of the project.
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Too often, companies “outsource” control of scoping decisions to an implementation partner, or ignore a looming scope crisis as they focus on tasks and deliverables, rather than asking if the project is meeting its business objectives. In this environment, Prevoyance Group will act as your Project Doctor, serving as an impartial observer, advocate and the first party to ring the alarm should your project go astray, before wasting piles of cash.
We work with your company to provide a comprehensive suite of “preventative medicine” early in the implementation process, starting during vendor selection where we can help you cut through the sales pitch and determine what will actually work for your company. We also successfully apply these services to currently active projects, helping you spot and correct potential trouble, or providing assurance that project dollars are being well spent. In the worst case, we will work with you to determine if it is time to “pull the plug” before a cancerous project infects the rest of your organization.
Project Doctor institutes tools to prevent failure, correct and monitor your project, with quantifiable results such as:
Project planning based on organizational value: Project planning will transition from a task and deliverable focus to a focus on delivering measurable business value. This will help you avoid the situation where the work (deliverables) are complete, but the project does not meet any business objective.
Comprehensive project cost determination: The impact of project decisions cannot be accurately assessed until the costs of each decision are known. A full understanding of project costs provides an accurate determination of ROI for a given decision.
Defined metrics and review process: Pre-defined metrics and gate review checkpoints are instituted, providing executive management with a “dashboard” of where the project stands at any point. Problems are identified and corrected before they impact the overall implementation schedule.
Improve scope management process: Project sponsors and decision makers will have an improved grasp on “scope creep” and avoid decisions that will negatively impact project ROI or schedule.
Improve team effectiveness: Project teams will unite behind business goals, rather than parochial interests and act as a seamless unit driving towards common objectives.
Improve communication: Team members will understand the current business objectives, and the project’s status against those objectives. Team members will feel ownership for the project’s success.
Prevoyance Group focuses solely on partnering with clients to help them complete their projects successfully. Rather than using these services as a means to sell large technology implementations, Prevoyance Group stringently maintains its role as an impartial advocate, delivering the good news along with the bad. Our years of experience on projects of all shapes and sizes, both blockbuster successes and spectacular failures, provide the insight necessary to make your project a success, or end it before it goes from a failed effort to a bottom-line busting disaster.
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